Booting and Shutdown in HP-UX Release 11i Version 1.5

Booting From an Alternate Device

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command: boot alt

Workstations

On HP 9000 workstations, once PDC has ﬁnished loading ISL, instead of

executing commands from the autoexecute ﬁle, ISL will prompt you to

manually enter a command:

b) Boot from a specified device

s) Search for bootable devices

a) Enter Boot Administration modex) Exit and continue boot

sequence?) HelpSelect from menu:

If you enter s at the menu prompt, the system will now (re)display the

list of places you can boot from. At this point you may have a number of

options:

• Specify that you want to boot from the address deﬁned as the

alternate boot path:

Select from menu: b alt

• Specify the boot selection number (P0, ..., P

) as the argument to the

boot command. For example:

Select from menu: b P3

• Specify a speciﬁc disk device to boot from as the argument to the boot

command. For example:

Select from menu: b scsi.4

• Specify a the lan address of another computer in your local network

segment to boot from. For example:

Select from menu: b lan.123456-789ABC.3.6